Terming the Mangalore pub incident as “unfortunate”, Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Monday said police are investigating the whole episode. “It's unfortunate. Police are investigating”, Yeddyurappa told reporters after the Republic Day function here. He said police have been given a free hand to probe the incident. “No body can take law into their hands”, the chief minister said. Fifteen to 20 right-wing “Sri Ram Sena” activists barged into the pub at Mangalore and assaulted boys and girls dancing there. Home minister V S Acharya said in Manipal that stringent action would be initiated against those involved in the assault. “Thirteen persons have been taken into custody (in connection with the incident). Government will not tolerate persons who take law into their hands,” he said. We were called prostitutes Recounting the ‘trauma', one of the woman victims of the attack on a Mangalore pub on Monday claimed that the Sri Ram Sena activists hurled abuses at them and called them “prostitutes”. “The whole thing was traumatising,” the unidentified victim said, adding that none of the bystanders came forward to help when the women were being pushed and their hair pulled by the attackers at the pub on Saturday. “We were just having a good time and next you know people pulling your hair, hitting you and calling you names like prostitutes, whores...,” the victim told a news channel. “The last thing we want is to be spoken to like this and especially by hooligans who don't know what they are doing,” she said.
